Football: Japan hold 1st training session at pre-World Cup camp in Austria

The Japan national team on Sunday held their first training session since arriving at their camp in the Austrian resort city of Innsbruck, where they are preparing for the World Cup starting June 14 in Russia.The entire Samurai Blue squad, including Borussia Dortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawa and Pachuca playmaker Keisuke Honda, took part in the session at a ground in Seefeld, on the outskirts of the alpine city in western Austria.With temperatures around 20 C, they worked up a sweat performing core-strengthening, running and ball skills exercises during the roughly two-hour session, which w…READ FULL ARTICLE